Matt Price

There's an old joke that goes: How do you get 20 Canadians out of a swimming pool? You shout, "Hey you Canadians, get out of the swimming pool."

We're generally an obedient lot, except while on skates, so what gives with the plan of a group of Canadians to

So many questions about Canada today. So few answers.

What are the Conservatives scared of, indirectly gutting environmental laws via the budget, rather than standing proud in the House to vote for the more appropriately named "Big Oil Now RunsThe Country Act"?

Why does the Harper...

This is the third and final piece in a series that began here and continued on the Huffington Post.

B.C. is a puzzle to the rest of Canada. It swings right and left like a pendulum in terms of governments in Victoria, with colourful political scandals...

This is part two of a three part series that began here.

The insult would only work on Ontario.

When Conservative MP Peter Van Loan accused Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty of being the "small man of confederation" for demanding that Ontario get more seats in the...

Paul Wells' recent Maclean's cover story about "How Ottawa Runs on Oil" should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand where Canada is heading under the Harper government. He not only puts into context the tactical attacks on environmentalists, but also explains how there is...

Polls show that more Canadians now feel our country is heading in the wrong direction. According to a study that appeared on ekospolitks.ca in March, 44.7 per cent of Canadian's think this country is going in the wrong direction. So, continue to shout at your television, or get...

The Harper Conservatives have fallen 16 points in B.C., hopefully in part because of their bully campaign on behalf of Enbridge's tar sands pipeline. But they show no sign of letting up, with an oil-soaked budget expected on March 29.

Former Conservative Fisheries...

First she came for our beavers, and now she's coming for our charities.

Conservative Senator Nicole Eaton is swinging into action again -- not that action is generally associated with the Senate, other when there are democratically-enacted climate laws to kill.

Now she's...

Fossil fuel Premiers Alison Redford and Brad Wall launched broadsides against Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty after the latter dared to stand up for Ontario's interests against the damage that Canada's petro-dollar is doing to the manufacturing sector.

Redford's reply was that McGuinty was being "simplistic."

Wall...

First, props to HuffPost for getting Peter Kent into its office to answer some questions. Goodness knows Canadians need better answers from an Environment Minister whose reputation is that of acting on behalf of the tar sands industry rather than the environment.

But, given his awful record, the

British Columbians are getting bullied by the Harper government in Ottawa. It's time our Premier stood up for us.

It's an unprecedented attack on Canadians who care about the future of their kids and the health of the natural environment that makes B.C. so special. No longer content to just...

There's a new sickness sweeping across Canada that medical experts have diagnosed as Selective Parochialism Disease. It afflicts mostly the ideological, and in particular those who think that cooking the planet for our children is a good idea.

Even the Prime Minister has caught it. In China, when he wasn't...

There's nothing that the Chinese government likes more than Western leaders dropping all that human rights stuff and instead coming around to kowtow before them, as Steven Harper will do with President Hu Jintao this week. The Chinese government is so pleased, it will even give him the

Stephen Harper's record of bullying is well-known. From character assassination attack ads, to the firing of multiple official watchdogs daring to do their job, to political dirty tricks in a Montreal riding, Harper has embraced the Karl Rove scorched earth...

In the wake of the latest Keystone XL setback, you have to wonder whether it's starting to sink in, whether the tar sands industry and its political apologists are getting anywhere close to that feeling of "Really, it's me, not you."

For decades this industry has developed a...

There has been some great work done recently exposing the web of connections between the Canadian Conservative party and the Ethical Oil tar sands PR campaign.

See in particular the work by Emma Pullman and Deep Climate.

This builds on a post I wrote about former...

This just in! I've got a yet-to-be authenticated advance copy of Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver's "streamlining" plan for hearings on things like Enbridge's proposed tar sands pipeline that would bring supertankers to B.C.'s coastline to take bitumen to China.

It's a 5-point plan, written...

Just because something is a bit complicated, it doesn't mean you can ignore it, especially when it's hurting you.

And yet, this appears to be the case with the loss of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in the past several years -- 627,000 by one measure --...

Let's face it, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has the gifted politician's gene, the one that allows him to mouth platitudes that fall flat from other politicians, and make them sound meaningful to the listener.

This is why he's seen as one of the most effective pro-tar sands boosters, despite the...

Wow. The success of my last post tells us something: if you are one of those people in the basement shouting at the TV news, you are not alone. I guess a lot of Canadians really are ready to be outraged by the outrageous. It's about time. Standing...